Boy band with no time for modesty

The award-winning Dublin trio have become a phenomenon — and are not fazed by accusations of cheesiness

Perhaps only those with a teenage girl in the house will know much about Ireland's latest music sensation, The Script. But the Dublin trio's eponymous debut album, released last August, went to the top of the Irish and UK charts. Last week they scooped two Meteor Awards - for best band and best album.

In true showbiz style, the lads unfortunately couldn't be in Dublin to pick up the awards. They have already decamped to America to begin an all-out campaign to conquer the largest of all music markets. Fortunately they are third on the priority list for their record company SonyBMG, just behind top-selling Leona Lewis and Rihanna. In teenage girl-speak, The Script are, like, seriously hot.

It helps that all three are exceptionally photogenic. The lead singer Danny O'Donoghue, 25, has the clean-cut good looks of a latter-day Donny Osmond and a voice vaguely reminiscent of Coldplay's Chris Martin.